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Does Integration Change Gender Attitudes? The Effect of Randomly Assigning Women to Traditionally Male Teams
Dahl, Gordon - 2018
mixed-gender productivity, gender roles and gender identity. Our context is the military in Norway, where we randomly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453363
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Marriage Bars : Discrimination Against Married Women Workers, 1920's to 1950's
Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1988
Modern personnel practices, social consensus, and the Depression acted in concert to delay the emergence of married women in the American economy through an institution known as the "marriage bar." Marriage bars were policies adopted by firms and local school boards, from about the early 1900's...
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Gender Based Occupational Segregation and Sex Differences in Sensory, Motor and Spatial Aptitudes
Baker, Michael - 2016
Research on sex differences in humans documents gender differences in sensory, motor and spatial aptitudes. These aptitudes, as captured by Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) codes, predict the occupational choices of men and women in the directions indicated by this research. We simulate...
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When the Kids Grow Up : Women's Employment and Earnings across the Family Cycle
Goldin, Claudia; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Olivetti, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Women earn less than men, and that is especially true of mothers relative to fathers. Much of the widening occurs after family formation when mothers reduce their hours of work. But what happens when the kids grow up? To answer that question, we estimate three earning gaps: the "motherhood...
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Women Helping Women? Evidence from Private Sector Data on Workplace Hierarchies
Kunze, Astrid - 2014
population of white-collar workers at over 4,000 private-sector establishments in Norway. Our data include unusually detailed job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457905
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Discrimination and State Capacity : Evidence from WWII U.S. Army Enlistment
Qian, Nancy; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper investigates the empirical relationship between inclusion and state capacity, as theorized by Besley and Persson (2009). We examine the impact of racial discrimination on Black U.S. military enlistment during the onset of WWII. We find that discrimination had a large and negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012696391
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Public and Private Options in Practice : The Military Health System
Frakes, Michael D. - 2020
Recent debates over health care reform, including in the context of the Military Health System (MHS) and Veterans Health Administration, highlight the dispute between public and private provision of health care services. Using novel data on childbirth claims from the MHS and drawing on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482475
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The Effect of OEF/OIF Deployment Intensity on the Rate of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Active Duty Population
Shen, Yu-Chu - 2009
This study estimates the effect of deployment location and length on the risk of developing PTSD, relative to what it would be from the normal military operations. We use a random sample of activity-duty enlisted personnel serving between 2001 and 2006. We identify PTSD cases from TRICARE...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463446
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Socioeconomic Differences in the Health of Black Union Army Soldiers
Lee, Chulhee - 2009
soldiers. Among the factors that contributed to a lower probability of contracting and dying from diseases were (1) lighter … differences in wartime health. For example, the advantages of light-skinned soldiers over dark-skinned and of enlisted men …
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Military Positions and Post-Service Occupational Mobility of Union Army Veterans, 1861-1880
Lee, Chulhee - 2006
experiences of soldiers influenced their civilian lives after the war. This paper examines how military rank and duty of Union … Army soldiers while in service affected their post-service occupational mobility. Higher ranks and non-infantry duties … were more likely to enter a white-collar occupation by 1880. The higher occupational mobility of higher-ranking soldiers is …
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